just going through the hundreds of unsorted disks I have and have found 'safari menu 11' (ceaser, super seymour, stuntcar racer, safari boot) which is a name i've not seen before, any one got any info?

spiny wrote:just going through the hundreds of unsorted disks I have and have found 'safari menu 11' (ceaser, super seymour, stuntcar racer, safari boot) which is a name i've not seen before, any one got any info?

I'm imaging the disk as we speak

Sorry for dragging this thread up, from the depths of zombie land!

I was the lead menu coder for safari, went by the name panther/vimto/motiv. We we're a small group consisting of a few friends from around preston.

our menus got to around 18 before we finished, most if not all of the menus done by myself.

from about menu 7 (my memory fails me), we had a dedicated cracker called 'the jolly roger', who cracked pretty much a game a disk for us. he later did some stuff for PP once we effectively folded.

the majority of menus we're simple scrollers but later on, once my 'talents' improved we were doing raster scrolling, overscans (horizontal and vertical), and the usal starfields/3D.

Other than this, I was also in Adrenalin UK and knew MSD of POV.

I also met mr MUGUK at the great british coding party, now that was a long long time ago.

Still, it' a bit of Atari history for me, which I thought I would share. It's funny what a simple google search gets you too!!

spiny wrote:just going through the hundreds of unsorted disks I have and have found 'safari menu 11' (ceaser, super seymour, stuntcar racer, safari boot) which is a name i've not seen before, any one got any info?

I'm imaging the disk as we speak

I also met mr MUGUK at the great british coding party, now that was a long long time ago.

I was there too have you seen the video that was filmed there ? it's comedy gold

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Mug UK wrote:Welcome aboard motiv. Name kind of rings a bell, but that video is from '92 so forgive me if the little grey cells have melted in the following 18 years

It's scary how 'bling' I was back then .. bad 'hair metal' hair, gold chain etc. Scary how fashion can be dated ... especially the W.A.S.P. t-shirt in the group section of that video

tell me about it, I can barely remember anything from last week. MSD of POV drove us up, and introduced me to Carter USM and faith no more, I was a gressy haired indie fan back then. It was like a baptism of fire!

If I remember correctly, I was pretty much behind you while there, wondering what the hell I was doing. Still, whenever I recall the tale to anyone, I was always the best coder, most famous; the party was also the height of UK talent.

motiv wrote:tell me about it, I can barely remember anything from last week. MSD of POV drove us up, and introduced me to Carter USM and faith no more, I was a gressy haired indie fan back then. It was like a baptism of fire!

Hi Motiv, That was a long time ago. I saw myself on the video, I am famous for about 5 seconds. I remember leaving the party early because I had a really bad headache. Also remember writing a large bob routine and spent hours writing a code gen routine with someone from Fingerbobs that saved me about 3 scan lines of CPU but was crazy complex, the routine went into the menu for POV125.

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atari_mark wrote:Hi Motiv, That was a long time ago. I saw myself on the video, I am famous for about 5 seconds. I remember leaving the party early because I had a really bad headache. Also remember writing a large bob routine and spent hours writing a code gen routine with someone from Fingerbobs that saved me about 3 scan lines of CPU but was crazy complex, the routine went into the menu for POV125.

Well there's a face from the past. Hello bud!

What a weird event it was for me. I was just on my journey of coding really. Had put together a see through scroller and sine wave/water screen for the demo competition, which on seeing the others at the event; I realise how low down the pecking order I was

I remember you lot and ADR picking me up from my house, scaring the hell out of me with your weird music and manimals look. Got to the event and basically owned on midi-maze

Was good seeing you ADR lot after all the chats, and was good to see some of the more vocal UK ST community at the event.

Enjoy, Oh and get in touch if you find number 3, ahhh, nostalgia... lol

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Ste i take it!

I wish I had all my menus and discs now. The reason I found this website was when my 'cheap as poo' discs I found last week, all were non-recoverable

did a google search and eventually got here. Pity the only one now obtainable was such a low number, hopefully I can find an ADR menu I did (if I did!). Sad really thinking that the effort (lol effort) I oput in now has vanished into the tip on those cheap arsed disks